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Anonymous wrote:Top 10 school. Close to DC and far enough away at the same time. Who so little interest?

It's supposedly a great med school, but I never heard that it was top 10 otherwise.

Than you are not well informed, Hopkins is recognized for having top programs in biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, neuroscience, biology, engineering generally, economics, international affairs, public health, and creative writing.

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Anonymous wrote:They hate white people now.

This.

+100 turned us off as alums

You poor things.

Poor JHU if they aren't getting any donations. The alums already got their degrees, they don't need JHU, JHU needs them. (Or not... they're certainly acting like they don't.)

Another alum here. With Bloomberg’s money, they don’t need you.

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Anonymous wrote:They hate white people now.

This.

+100 turned us off as alums

You poor things.

Poor JHU if they aren't getting any donations. The alums already got their degrees, they don't need JHU, JHU needs them. (Or not... they're certainly acting like they don't.)

They got those Bloomberg bucks.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

It appears plenty of kids in MC (Albert Einstein in Kensington; Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Walt Whitman and Walter Johnson in Bethesda; Montgomery Blair in Silver Spring; Richard Montgomery and Thomas S. Wootton in Rockville; and Winston Churchill in Potomac) apply to JHU. With the exception of U Penn and Cornell, more kids applied to JHU than other Ivies, Duke, Northwestern, U Chicago, or Stanford.

422 applied; 34 accepted; 20 enrolled

Anonymous wrote:I was a little shocked that the freshman housing had a fenced off courtyard with a guard, and then you could use a key to get into your hallway. That seemed pretty high security to me. Also a lot of keys needed to enter library and general hallways. It’s more
Locked up than a rural campus.

This is the case at CMU.

Rural campuses, by definition, have no one around other than students, so no security needed. It's like not locking your door.

Too expensive and too close. Also hard to get admitted.

Anonymous wrote:My brother went through - extremely cutthroat (though he did meet his wife and made some good friends there). Also, his off-campus apartment was broken into twice. This was years ago - crime is much worse now.

This exact story happened to my boss's kid also. She felt her younger son's Purdue education was cheaper, safer, and more relaxing. Both kids have good jobs now and live in the Midwest (both were OOS for their colleges).

Because it is too hard and not for pansies. JHU is notorious for grade deflation, which is in contrast to schools like Harvard which has big grade deflation.

Look, most of these kids want to do garbage like consulting, banking, or some other finance. You need to get the best grades on paper for a degree that really doesn't matter. Those fields only care about the name on the paper and your gpa, so take the path of least resistance and go to the easiest schools possible.

JHU is HARD.

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Anonymous wrote:Too close to home and the culture may seem too intense...

Can someone compare it to UChicago? I feel as though people avoid JHU because it's "intense" and because the neighborhood is unsafe, and yet there is so much Chicago love in DC, and I think people would say the same things about Chicago.

Are they intense in different ways? Are the neighborhoods substantially different?

Hopkins undergrad is in North Baltimore, surrounded by one middle class and two wealthy neighborhoods. For a irban school, it is quite safe. Always amuses me that posters here talk about how dangerous it is — UVA has had a number of murders over the past decade, Hopkins has not.

You only have to drive a block or so from campus to see drug addicts staggering around. If you're ok with your kids being around that, fine, you do you.

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Anonymous wrote:They hate white people now.

This.

+100 turned us off as alums

You poor things.

Poor JHU if they aren't getting any donations. The alums already got their degrees, they don't need JHU, JHU needs them. (Or not... they're certainly acting like they don't.)

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 school. Close to DC and far enough away at the same time. Who so little interest?

It's supposedly a great med school, but I never heard that it was top 10 otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:It's an EXCELLENT university.

However, it has the reputation of being cutthroat, mostly for fundamental science, and the campus is located in a less-safe area of Baltimore.

I am interested in this option for my second daughter, who might go into STEM, but since I don't know Baltimore, I'm not sure about the safety situation.

I have a DD currently there and one heading next year. Both STEM majors. Oldest DD absolutely loves it! She hasn't found it to be cutthroat at all, is at parties every Friday and Saturday (none during the week unless something like St. Patrick's Day) and the area around campus is perfectly fine. Baltimore is a large city and there are certainly neighborhoods that your student shouldn't venture to, but the area around JHU is fine. DD also takes public transportation to the inner harbor, fells point, Towson to name a few. Let me know if you have any questions and I'd be happy to help.

She may be lying to you to make you think she has a social life(embarrassment) because JHU is known to lack any parties. Socializing typically ends at 7:00 pm even on weekends.

Huh? I went to Hopkins in the 2000s and there were plenty of parties. It's not an SEC school but it's not a monastery.
It's not entirely a pre-med grind.

Also, Baltimore is as safe as DC or any city if you're not interacting with the drug culture (i.e. selling or buying). Do a deep dive of the violent crime stats--violent crime is 99.9% contained within the drug community or associates.
I lived there from 18 to 30 in some super unsafe neighborhoods (i.e. several grad school years in an apartment that cost $150/month because the area was that rough). No one ever bothered me and the neighbors looked out for my roommate and I.
Many good, hardworking people live in even the roughest neighborhoods.

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 school. Close to DC and far enough away at the same time. Who so little interest?

$$$$

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Anonymous wrote:They hate white people now.

This.

+100 turned us off as alums

You poor things.

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Anonymous wrote:Too close to home and the culture may seem too intense...

Can someone compare it to UChicago? I feel as though people avoid JHU because it's "intense" and because the neighborhood is unsafe, and yet there is so much Chicago love in DC, and I think people would say the same things about Chicago.

Are they intense in different ways? Are the neighborhoods substantially different?

Hopkins undergrad is in North Baltimore, surrounded by one middle class and two wealthy neighborhoods. For a irban school, it is quite safe. Always amuses me that posters here talk about how dangerous it is — UVA has had a number of murders over the past decade, Hopkins has not.

Hopkins is a far more athletics driven school than Chicago. In addition to having perennial T20 D1 lacrosse teams, the d3 football, baseball, field hockey, track and field and swimming teams consistently do well and often advance to the NCAA playoffs. I also think Chicago is more intellectual, Hopkins more pre professional.

About a third of the students are active in Greek life.

Having gone to Hopkins and now living back in Baltimore, there is no school that DCUM posters consistently get wrong. Yes, there are geeky kids, as there are at every college, particularly at a T10. There is also a sizable portion of social kids who go out every weekend (when I was a student, weekends started on Wednesday).